Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	30 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 31 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	79 from 70 nations
Winning time	46.40 WR
Medalists
Pan Zhanle  China Kyle Chalmers  Australia David Popovici  Romania
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Breaststroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Individual medley
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men		women
4 × 200 m	men		women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women
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The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 30 and 31 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]

The winning margin was 1.08 seconds. This was the first time this event had been won by over a second at the Olympics.

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Pan Zhanle (CHN)	46.80	Doha, Qatar	11 February 2024
Olympic record	Caeleb Dressel (USA)	47.02	Tokyo, Japan	29 July 2021

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
27 July	Final*	Pan Zhanle	China	46.92	OR
31 July	Final	Pan Zhanle	China	46.40	WR

* Split from the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[2][3]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[2]

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Jack Alexy	United States	47.57	Q
2	8	5	Maxime Grousset	France	47.70	Q
3	9	4	David Popovici	Romania	47.92	Q
4	9	3	Nándor Németh	Hungary	47.93	Q
5	8	6	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	48.01	Q
6	10	5	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	48.07	Q
7	8	3	Alessandro Miressi	Italy	48.24	Q
8	9	5	Chris Guiliano	United States	48.25	Q
	10	2	Josha Salchow	Germany	48.25	Q
10	9	6	Andrej Barna	Serbia	48.34	Q
	10	6	Joshua Liendo	Canada	48.34	Q
12	10	7	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	48.35	Q
13	8	7	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	48.40	Q
	10	3	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	48.40	Q
	10	4	Pan Zhanle	China	48.40	Q
16	8	2	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	48.41	Q, WD
17	10	8	William Yang	Australia	48.46	q
18	9	1	Jacob Whittle	Great Britain	48.47
19	7	8	Sergio de Celis	Spain	48.49
20	8	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	48.53
21	7	6	Tomer Frankel	Israel	48.66
22	10	1	Wang Haoyu	China	48.79
23	7	4	Sean Niewold [nl]	Netherlands	48.82
	7	5	Rafael Fente-Damers	France	48.82
	9	8	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	48.82
26	5	5	Lamar Taylor	Bahamas	48.84
	6	4	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba	48.84
28	9	7	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	48.88
29	7	2	Yuri Kisil	Canada	49.06
30	6	5	Ralph Daleiden	Luxembourg	49.12
31	7	7	Cameron Gray	New Zealand	49.24
32	7	1	Jorge Iga	Mexico	49.28
33	8	8	Nikola Miljenić	Croatia	49.34
34	7	3	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	49.35
35	9	2	Marcelo Chierighini	Brazil	49.38
36	6	7	Jakub Majerski	Poland	49.44
37	6	2	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	49.51
38	6	3	Jonathan Tan	Singapore	49.60
39	6	1	Daniel Gracík	Czech Republic	49.65
40	6	6	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	49.70
41	6	8	Adilbek Mussin	Kazakhstan	49.92
42	5	3	Simon Doueihy	Lebanon	50.10
43	4	1	Nikolas Antoniou	Cyprus	50.35
44	4	3	Jayhan Odlum-Smith	Saint Lucia	50.39
	4	5	Yousuf Al-Matrooshi	United Arab Emirates	50.39
46	5	4	Jack Kirby	Barbados	50.42
47	4	4	Leo Nolles	Uruguay	50.58
48	5	8	Samyar Abdoli	Iran	50.63
49	5	6	Dulyawat Kaewsriyong	Thailand	50.64
50	4	8	Enkhtamir Batbayar	Mongolia	50.81
51	4	2	Matthieu Seye	Senegal	50.84
52	4	6	Harry Stacey	Ghana	51.12
53	3	6	Zaid Al-Sarraj	Saudi Arabia	51.21
54	4	7	Kyle Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	51.42
55	5	7	Ian Ho	Hong Kong	51.46
56	5	2	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia	51.54
57	5	1	Javier Núñez	Dominican Republic	51.55
58	3	4	Adell Sabovic	Kosovo	51.77
59	3	1	Alexander Shah	Nepal	51.91	NR
60	2	5	Ovesh Purahoo	Mauritius	52.22
61	3	5	Musa Zhalayev	Turkmenistan	52.29
62	3	7	Grisi Koxhaku	Albania	52.32
63	3	8	Mohamad Zubaid	Kuwait	52.35
64	3	3	Henrique Mascarenhas	Angola	52.52
65	2	4	Nixon Hernández	El Salvador	52.73
66	3	2	Johann Stickland	Samoa	52.94
67	2	3	Antoine De Lapparent	Cambodia	52.95
68	2	2	Irvin Hoost	Suriname	52.99
69	2	6	Samiul Islam Rafi	Bangladesh	53.10
70	2	7	Issa Al-Adawi	Oman	53.19
71	2	1	Collins Saliboko	Tanzania	53.38
72	1	4	Josh Tarere	Papua New Guinea	53.85
73	1	6	Phone Pyae Han	Myanmar	55.56
74	1	3	Sangay Tenzin	Bhutan	56.08
75	2	8	Yousef Abubaker	Libya	56.19
76	1	5	Alexien Kouma	Mali	56.34
77	1	2	Johnathan Silas	Vanuatu	59.38	NR
78	1	7	Giorgio Armani Nguichie Kamseu Kamogne	Cameroon	1:03.42
79	1	1	Hadji Hassane	Comoros	1:07.21
Source:[5][6]

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	8	Pan Zhanle	China	47.21	Q
2	1	3	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	47.58	Q
3	1	5	Nándor Németh	Hungary	47.61	Q
4	1	4	Maxime Grousset	France	47.63	Q
5	2	5	David Popovici	Romania	47.66	Q
6	2	4	Jack Alexy	United States	47.68	Q
7	1	6	Chris Guiliano	United States	47.72	Q
8	2	2	Josha Salchow	Germany	47.94	Q
9	2	6	Alessandro Miressi	Italy	47.95
10	1	7	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	48.03
11	2	7	Josh Liendo	Canada	48.06
12	1	1	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	48.09
13	2	3	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	48.10
14	1	2	Andrej Barna	Serbia	48.11
15	1	8	William Yang	Australia	48.42
16	2	1	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	48.78
Source:[7][8]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Pan Zhanle	China	46.40	WR
	5	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	47.48
	2	David Popovici	Romania	47.49
4	3	Nándor Németh	Hungary	47.50
5	6	Maxime Grousset	France	47.71
6	8	Josha Salchow	Germany	47.80	NR
7	7	Jack Alexy	United States	47.96
8	1	Chris Guiliano	United States	47.98
Source:[9]